Kuang Meizhong: raising pigs to produce a "new way"

"Xiao Kuang, several sows in my family have had miscarriages many times, and the piglets have also developed symptoms of weight loss, cough, and death. More than 100 pigs have died of illness within a month. What's going on? " Recently, Kuang Meizhong from Yutian Village, Zhonglingjiang Town, Guiyang County, Hunan Province, received a call from Chen Haiqiang, a big farmer in Linwu County, neighboring County.

Kuang Meizhong immediately promised to make a special trip the next day to learn about the situation. After dissecting dead pigs on the spot, Kuang Meizhong diagnosed that this was a mixed infection of Haemophilus parasuis caused by blue ear disease virus.

Kuang Meizhong, a 32-year-old young man, is the most popular and the only college student "swineherd" in Guiyang County. He not only manages a pig farm with an annual output of 2300 heads, but also provides technical guidance to more than 60 other farmers.

In 2006, he graduated from Jiangsu Vocational and Technical College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine and joined an ecological agricultural enterprise in Zhejiang. With his pragmatic spirit, Kuang Meizhong was soon promoted to assistant to the general manager. In September 2006, he was on the rise in his career, but despite the opposition of his family, he decided to resign and go back to his hometown to raise pigs and develop "pig-marsh-fruit" ecological recycling agriculture.

Knowing that the objection was null and void, the parents had to support their son under pressure. Kuang Meizhong and his parents, three people, three hoes, and three forces, built mountain roads, pig sheds, and marshes on the contracted barren mountains. after fighting day and night for more than 100 days, the first batch of more than 40 pigs entered the pen.

In the following month, the weather remained hot. Kuang Meizhong realized that high temperature may cause blue ear disease in pigs. Without waiting for the government to vaccinate the pigs for free, he vaccinated the pigs at his own expense. As expected, blue-ear disease occurred one after another in various places a few months later, and many farmers suffered heavy losses, but he survived the danger, earned the first bucket of gold, and also won the recognition of local farmers. The scale of his pig farm has also expanded again and again, from the initial one pig house of 240square meters to eight pig houses of more than 3000 square meters year by year, and the model of eco-circular agriculture has also been formed.

While raising pigs scientifically, Kuang Meizhong also made great efforts to the scientific management of pig farms. "although there are more and more pigs, there are fewer and fewer workers in pig farms, and I don't have to look after them myself every day." Kuang Meizhong took out his cell phone while chatting with the reporter, clicked on a pig breeding management software, entered the corresponding code, and the information of the pig farm "jumped" to each pig.

Kuang Meizhong said that according to these data, pathological analysis can be done, for example, by comparing the average birth weight and weaning weight of sows, we can judge the reproduction of sows and help pig farms to achieve survival of the fittest. In addition, there are early warning tips for which pigs will be vaccinated and which will never be missed.

"with the swineherd Kuang, there is no panic in raising pigs." In the eyes of the villagers, Kuang Meizhong, a college student, has really developed a "new way" in raising pigs. In order to lead more people to raise pigs scientifically, Kuang Meizhong not only promotes the development of farmers through the Dalian pig farming professional cooperative he established, but also uses Wechat's "Pig Night talk" group chat platform every day to exchange his "farming classics" with more than 60 big pig farmers around him.

Li Shi, our reporter Yang Juan